...since 27th July 1992 I have not smoked another cigarette. 

Both my parents were smokers, my Dad told me once that he was 12 when he started and when he reached 72 and suffering badly from emphysema he stopped just like that.   It bought him another 6 years but sadly in the end lung cancer took him.   My Mam wasn't what a lot of us would call a 'proper smoker' because she didn't inhale.   I look back on her smoking with amusement because she only smoked when she was busy.   She was a tailoress and always sewing and when she was working around the house whatever she was doing she had a lighted cigarette in the corner of her mouth.   The original 'Fag Ash Lil', she stopped in 1972.
 
I started smoking when I was 13, well not properly but I started experimenting then and was smoking regularly by the time I was 16.   >From then I smoked around 30 a day for almost 30 years.   I tried so many times to stop, once I even stopped for 4 months then stupidly started again.   However, over here in Britain our Government puts huge taxes on tobacco and the prices are constantly rising every Budget Day.   Well I went way past the 'If the Chancellor puts them up to £1/£2 a packet in the Budget then im giving up'   and of course didnt.   By July 1992 the price of a 20 packet was £2.60pence and I decided enough was enough.   It was hard, and my kids tell me that I was hell on wheels for a month or so but I can honestly say that since 27th July 1992 I have not smoked another cigarette.   I feel better, smell better and can now afford to buy stuff that I never could when I was smoking so I would encourage anyone to do it.   My hubby is a lifetime non-smoker and I know he appreciates now living in a smoke free atmosphere

Anne